Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Page 13
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Oxford Radcliffe MARS scheme attracts over 200 applicants
WORKFORCE: A voluntary redundancy scheme at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust has attracted more than 200 applicants.
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Oxford Radcliffe reviews head and neck cancer services
STRUCTURE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is to review head and neck cancer services following “concerns and frustrations” expressed by patients and interest groups.
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Oxford Radcliffe fails to keep pace with CIP target
FINANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is falling behind on its cost improvement plan and surplus targets, and is overspending on pay costs.
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Rising referrals cause concern in Buckinghamshire
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in Buckinghamshire have expressed concerns over rising demand from GP referrals.
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SHA identifies concerns over finance and performance in Oxfordshire and Bucks
PERFORMANCE: The Buckinghamshire health system has been given an amber “performance under review” rating by the South Central strategic health authority.
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Performance notices on Oxford Radcliffe lifted after improvements
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have closed five performance notices on Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust after seeing improved performance over the past year.
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Oxford Radcliffe to review 'significantly higher than expected' death rate
PERFORMANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust is to begin formally reviewing around 800 deaths a year after finding it has an unusually high mortality rate and was unable to identify what proportion of deaths were avoidable.
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NewsLansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
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NewsCCP puts patient benefit over patient choice in acute merger
The Co-operation and Competition Panel has advised, for the first time, that a merger between two rival providers can go ahead, because the potential benefits outweighed the reduction in patient choice.
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NewsExclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system
The payment by results tariff system could tip England’s elite teaching hospitals into deficit and damage the country’s medical research industry, their chief executives have warned.
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South Central consults on redesign for stroke, vascular and trauma care
STRUCTURE: A consultation is underway recommending a reconfiguration of stroke, vascular and major trauma care in the South Central region.
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NewsFirst large hospital merger approved by CCP
A plan to shake up hospital care in Hampshire has become the first merger of large acute trusts to pass a key test designed to enshrine competition in the NHS.
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Oxford Radcliffe falls short on nutrition standard
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has called for improvements in care at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after finding that the food and drink provided was not meeting patients’ dietary needs.
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Oxford Radcliffe consults on GP paediatric advice service
STRUCTURE: Paediatricians at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust have consulted with GPs on proposals for an advice service for them.
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Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire CIPs slip as acutes over-spend
FINANCE: The Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster is struggling to meet cost improvement programme savings as acute provider contracts over-perform.
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CommentSupport for children's heart unit intensifies in the South
Nothing mobilises a community quite like a hospital reconfiguration. Especially, it turns out, when the service threatened with possible closure is a children’s heart unit.
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Nuffield Orthopaedic makes grade on dignity and nutrition
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission said the specialist trust passed both of the standards relating to dignity and nutrition during a spot check as part of a wider investigation into how older patients are treated.
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Delay to Oxford Radcliffe merger with Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital
STRUCTURE: The proposed merger of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has been delayed until the autumn.
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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre passes on information governance
PERFORMANCE: The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has met all 45 requirements of the Information Governance Toolkit, and reported a successful upgrade of its electronic patient record system.
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Royal Berkshire FT set to lose patients from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to rival
STRUCTURE: The acute trust reported that it had complained to the strategic health authority NHS South Central about the designation of level three Neonatal Intensive Care Unit services, which would see it lose patients to the John Radcliffe Hospital.